| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Lombardy |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Lom·bar·dy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l m b r-d , l m- |
| A region of northern Italy bordering on Switzerland. First inhabited by a Gallic people, it became the center of the kingdom of the Lombards in the sixth century a.d. and part of Charlemagne's empire in 774. The Lombard League of cities defeated Emperor Frederick I in 1176.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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